New College English Basic Course Unit 8 Romantic Stories

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New College English Basic Course Unit
8RomanticStories
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Content

• Preparation
• Listening-centered activities
• Reading centered activities
• In-class reading
• Pre-reading question
• A True Love Story
• Assignments
• After-class reading
• Passage I Detour to Romance
• Passage II Appointment with Love
• Further development
• Practical writing

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Preparation

• Love is an eternal topic of us human beings. The
  romantic love is yearning.
• Do you know some famous romantic stories?
• Have you experienced/had romantic love?

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Karl Marx and Jenny
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Listening-centered activities

• Answers to exercises
• Listening 1
• Exercise 1
• 1) A 2) D 3) C 4) C 5) D
• Exercise 2
• Sample 1 Pat saw the mailman almost everyday,
  but she didnt see tom this often. So, I think if
  you love someone, you have to meet up with his/
  her as often as possible.
• Sample 2 The mailman always smiled to her when
  he gave Pat the letters. She thought he was very
  friendly, hardworking and trustworthy.

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• Listening 2
• Exercise 1
• 1)real 2) real 3) wanting to be loved
• 4) touch 5)touch 6) asked to be loved
• 7) you 8) me 9) free 10) free
• 11) needing to be loved

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• Listening 3
• Exercise 1
• 1) To say how much she enjoyed the letter./To
  ask about the postscript.
• 2) To climb the highest mountain in the world,
  to swim the widest river, to enter the deepest
  forest and to fight the fiercest animals with his
  bare hands.
• 3) the postscipt
• 4) By the way, Ill be over to see you on
  Wednesday night---- if it doesnt rain.
• 5) He is hypocritical. He says in the letter
  that he will climb the highest mountain in the
  world, swim the widest river, enter the deepest
  forest and fight the fiercest animals with his
  bare hands. However, he will not came to see her
  if it rains.

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• Exercise 2
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  May 15. 2000
• Dear Jerry, Im so pleased to receive your nice
  letter. All those beautiful things you said are
  wonderful. I think I am the happiest woman in the
  world. With you, I wouldnt want anything else.
  You make me the richest woman in the world. I
  love you no matter whether you are rich or poor.
• P.S. Wednesday when you came, please dont forget
  to bring the diamond necklace you promised to buy
  me.

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In-class reading ---Pre-reading questions

• 1. Have you heard Robert Browning and his love
  story with Elizabeth Barrett?
• 2. Do you know anything about Elizabeth Barrett?

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In-class reading

• Background information
• Elizabeth Barrette
• Browning (1806-1861)
• At the age of 15, she fell off a horse,
  injuring her spine. This made her in a recumbent
  position for a long time and she never fully
  recovered from this.

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• Robert Browning (1812-1889)
• His romance and marriage with Elizabeth Barrette
  helped her tremendously, contributing to an
  improvement in her health.

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After-class reading questions

• Passage 1 ( Detour to Romance?)
• 1) What was Harry doing when the writer first
  saw him?
• 2) What did most people think had happened?
• 3) What happened three years before that
  caused all this trouble?
• 4) What do you think of Harry
• Passage 2 (Appointment with Love)
• 1) How long have they been writing to each
  other?
• 2)Why did Hollis refuse to send him her
  photograph?